[MilCom] [northeastmilair] Re: A Great Friend and Monitor Has Passed Away

[Craig Scott]

After seeing so many posts about Don, I wanted to add my thoughts.  After seeing his regular posts I emailed him one day for some info.  He sent me back a whole page of military frequencies that I did not have.  I remember going home that night and right as I entered the last digit of a freq. @ Ft. Drum, I heard comms!  I couldn't believe it!  Needless to say, I contacted him more often after that.  We got on the subject of me shooting air show videos and he asked me if I would travel up to Northville to shoot his incredible Christmas light display.  The whole house and yard were equipped with lights that were synced up to TSO music and even BROADCAST on FM!  The tape didn't turn out so well and I told him I would come back someday and shoot it with one of our studio cameras. That was two years ago.  I was just in contact with him a couple of weeks ago and we exchanged emails about the air show at Pease.  He said he wouldn't be going.  When I
 was at his house, he gave me a tour of his monitoring station.  I was very envious!  He had quite the nice set-up!  He encouraged me to keep up my search for a AT-197GR military discone.  When I finally found one on ebay and won it on auction, he congratulated me.  When I put it up, I will think of him.  My condolences to his wife and family and we all know how much we will miss his input.
Craig
Watervliet NY
BC-895, (2)898, (2) 780, 785, Stridsberg active antenna splitters, discone and AT-197GR   


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 From: Mark Kirker <mkirker at nycap.rr.com>
To: Larry Van Horn <n5fpw at brmemc.net> 
Cc: northeastmilair at yahoogroups.com; MILCOM <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 12:39 PM
Subject: [northeastmilair] Re: [MilCom] A Great Friend and Monitor Has Passed Away
 

  
Well said Larry...
I have been friends with Don for 20 years and he is the one who got me hooked on scanning. I was strictly police and fire monitoring and sent a letter with police frequencies I was monitoring to his 1991 newsletter called Northeast Scanning News and he found my number in the phone book and called me and gave me hundreds of military frequencies. I quickly went out and bought a Pro-2006 and enough said, I was hooked. 
I will truly miss my good friend and fellow scanning partner. There will now be dozens of frequencies I will not hear because he was always scanning for new stuff and was always quick to share what he found. 

You will be missed 

Mark Kirker
Glenville, NY

On Jun 29, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Larry Van Horn wrote:

> It is the deepest of saddest that I announce the passing of a good friend - 
> Don Edwards, N2YPK.
> 
> Don's wife Nancy connected me this morning to let me know that he passed 
> away yesterday after short battle with cancer. Nancy wrote: "He loved 
> monitoring everything on the scanners and HF and loved sending the pictures 
> of the same to Monitoring Times."
> 
> I have no other details regarding at this time and if nancy passes anything 
> else along, I will pass it along to the various list. Will the admins at 
> Milcom and NEMilAir please unsubscribe Don from the list so Nancy does not 
> have to handle list mail to his email account. Thanks.
> 
> So to sign Don off, I'll pass along his sig line "Speak softly and carry a 
> Glock." Rest in peace old friend.
> 
> Larry
> 
> Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
> Brasstown, NC USA
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